vendredi 11 juin 2010

One of the great astrological stories in the Bible is the story of the star of Bethlehem. It is written that the star was a sign from God signaling the birth of the Messiah into the world. The three Magi, Persian astrologer-kings, determined the time of this birth by the position of this star.

In 1600, Johannes Kepler hypothesized that this star was actually a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Confirmed by modern astrology, this symbolism ties in with the prophecies of that era concerning a Messiah amongst the Jews. The conjunctions occurred at the end of Pisces, ruled by Jupiter. Jupiter is the planet of kings. Saturn is the planet that rules the Jews, thereby giving the king of the Jews. This was a very infrequent triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and it occurred in the year 7 B.C.

MY COMMENT:

This writer astrology committed some gaffes, one of them is that as you do some discovery in astronomy, astrology has to adjust their forecasts according to the new map of the cosmos. So the old forecasts were based on erroneous beliefs about the motion of the stars. The author recognizes the disparity between the ancient and modern astrological concepts speaks in such a "modern astrology."

If either one can say that Jesus was born in the year 7 BC, much less the days and months. Kepler's theory is a speculation and can not be taken as true unbeatable. Another statement that is only hypothetical is to say that the magi mentioned in the Bible are astrologers.